The night in the desert should be very cold, because the sand has less specific heat, absorbs heat quickly, and dissipates heat quickly. A proverb that people in the desert often say is "wear a cotton jacket in the morning, wear yarn in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the fire".

However, the desert of the Flaming Mountains is something special. Even though Redstone Village was on the edge of the Flaming Mountain, it was still hot at night.

At night, Redstone Village looks desolate, abandoned boulders and dilapidated houses like the backs of a herd of monsters crawling in the desert, glowing with dark red blood in the moonlight.

Qi Hufei walked into the village and wandered around the ruins, feeling the remaining energy fluctuations in the formation while comparing the knowledge of Qimen Dunjia that he was familiar with.

He's going to find the Eye.

There are no formations in the world that can get out of Qimen and gossip, and these two things are exactly what he is proficient in.

Soon, he found the Eight Gates of Life and Death. From opening the door to entering, and going out, it was like walking through a maze, and then I entered the eye of the array.

It was a very inconspicuous stone, as if it had been discarded there by a quarryman.

The surface of the stone has been very weathered, full of mottled cracks, and with a light touch of the hand, layers of sand particles fall down.

But Qi Jufei soon discovered the doorway.

There was a depression in the middle of the stone, which had been filled with grains of sand, and when he pulled it all out, a depression appeared.

The shape of this pit is somewhat peculiar and does not look like it is naturally formed.

In his divine sense, he found that eight hexagrams appeared around the pit.

That's right, it's the symbol of the eight trigrams, and the arrangement is exactly the same as the arrangement of the eight hexagrams on the Tai Chi platform in his mirror.

These symbols are not engraved, but printed with mana.

The mind can see, but the eye cannot see.

Looking closely at the pit in the middle, Qi Hufei found that the shape was somewhat familiar, as if it was very similar to the shape of the phoenix soul jade.

Could it be that the jade was originally embedded in this stone?

Qi Feifei had a strong urge to put the Phoenix Soul Jade into the pit.

It's a pity that he has already returned the Phoenix Soul Jade to Ye Qiuhuang.

Although he knew that Feng Soul Jade was not on his body, he still subconsciously put his hand into his pocket.

However, the ghost made the god worse, and he actually took out the phoenix soul jade from his pocket.

The phoenix soul jade was lying in the palm of his hand.

He looked at its texture in amazement, felt its temperature, and admired the beauty of the phoenix's wings.

Everything is real.

Qi Hufei once again broke out in a cold sweat.

Is it an illusion to return the jade to Ye Qiuhuang before, or is it an illusion that is experiencing now?

He recalled.

Could it be that he never went out after coming out of the farmhouse and entering Redstone Village during the day, and everything that happened after that was an illusion, and he just stood here all the time and never left?

Or did he return the jade to Ye Qiuhuang, and after telling Ye Wentian to practice, he went back to his room and fell asleep, and now he was dreaming?

Or, did he come to Redstone Village, but was attacked by the formation in the process of breaking the formation, so he hallucinated, so everything he saw now was fake?

No matter how calm and rational he was, he couldn't see the truth in front of him. And the urge to put the phoenix soul jade into the groove of the stone became stronger and stronger.

I leaned over and gently blew the fine sand out of the groove, then took a deep breath and slowly and carefully put the jade in.

The shape really matched the jade, and it fit perfectly.

At this moment, he saw the gossip symbol light up in his consciousness.

And then something amazing happened.

He saw a floating hilt next to the stone.

At first, he felt familiar, and felt that it was very similar to the hilt of his Shadow Sword.

After a few more glances, he was sure that the two were identical.

The hilt of the sword is not suspended there, but there is an invisible blade of the sword, which is stuck in the stone.

Qi Hufei was startled, and immediately touched his body, and his hand tightly grasped the hilt of the Chengying Sword.

Fortunately, the Chengying Sword is still there.

So what is that sword on the stone?

Could it be that there are two shadow-bearing swords in this world?

He walked over and gently grasped the hilt of his sword.

What a familiar feeling!

Naturally, he used the sword grip technique.

The invisible sword stuck in the rock was pulled out by him.

He held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, feeling the spiritual power emanating from the sword body.

Even spirituality is the same.

He used the Edgeworth technique to shoot out a sword aura again.

The sword qi swam across the sand, carving a deep ravine.

Qi Hufei was confused.

Treasures like the Shadow Inheritance Sword should be unique as a matter of course.

He took out the Shadow Sword on his body as well.

One sword in one hand.

The sword shape is the same, the sword spirit is the same, and the sword trick is the same......

How could such a coincidence be possible in this world?

When Qi Feifei first started, he suspected that this sword was one of the other two of Shang Tianzi's three swords—Hanguang or Xiaolian.

But he immediately rejected that judgment.

Since they are three swords and their names are different, it is impossible to cast exactly the same.

This is most likely another hallucination.

The sword that had just been pulled out of the stone should be illusory, non-existent, and imaginary.

He decided to put the fake sword back.

But now he holds a sword in each hand, and it is exactly the same. He was suddenly a little unsure, which hand he had just drawn the sword, and which hand was holding the sword on his body?

Which one is true and which one is false?

It's an amazing feeling. It's painful and curious, like guessing a riddle to which you can't guess the answer.

Suddenly, he heard someone say, "Why don't you take both swords back?" Maybe both are true! ”

Qi Hufei turned around suddenly, and saw a phantom figure wearing a bright red cloak.

He recognized that this was the figure he saw in the vast sea of fire when he entered the mine during the day and felt the collapsed stone wall.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"Why bother who I am." The man said, "Two good swords, only children do multiple-choice questions, you are an adult, why don't you bring them all back?" ”

Qi Hufei said: "There can't be two identical swords in this world. ”

"Everything is not absolute, look at the sword in your hand, isn't it exactly the same?"

"There must be a handful that is true, and generally a fake." Qi Hufei said.

"What is true and what is false?" The man asked suddenly.

Qi Hufei was stunned for a moment.

"The reality of the object is true, and the virtual realm of the mind is false." He said.

The man asked, "Where does the reality come from?" Where does the mind-self void come from? ”

Qi Hufei said: "The reality of things and me is the origin of the world, and the imaginary realm of the mind is the fantasy of my heart. ”

"How do you know that what you fantasize in your heart is not the original world?"

"What I fantasize about in my heart is only the ego world I created, which is illusory, not the original of the world."

"Your world is small because your mana is not strong enough, if you are strong enough, such as a saint, the mind world created by a saint is a big world, so is it the original world?"

"Of course not. The world of mind and self created by the saint is also vain, no matter how strong his mana is. Just because he is a saint, he cannot say that his mind is the original, and that the world of the mind he created is the world of the self. ”

"So, how do you know that the world you live in is not an illusion created by a saint?"

Qi Hufei was suddenly stunned.

Thinking about what happened in the past two days, there is indeed a feeling of living in vain.

"No, it's impossible, a saint can influence my state of mind, but it's impossible to create a generous universe that includes thirty-three days."

"Then where did the Dafang Universe come from?"

"Carved out of chaos."

"Who opened it?"

"Holy ...... Sage ......" Qi Hufei said with some humility.

"Where did the saint come from?"

"It is also born from chaos......

"The saint born in chaos opened up the chaotic world, as if your mother gave birth to you, and you created your mother."

"No, no, the sage didn't create the chaotic world, the sage just went with the flow, opened up the Three Realms, and educated all kinds."

"You see, opening up the Three Realms and educating all kinds, isn't this still the heart and self world of a saint?"

Qi Hufei was speechless for a while.

Then the man asked, "What is above the saints?" ”

"It's the way of heaven." Qi Hufei blurted out.

"What about the Heavenly Dao?"

"...... above the Heavenly Dao??"

Qi Feifei felt that his thinking was stagnant, and his brain was a little insufficient.

"Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. The Tao is the source, the beginning of everything, and the end of our pursuit. There is no heavenly way above. ”

"Hahahaha......" the man laughed, "have you gotten the truth?" ”

"Of course not." Qi Hufei said.

"Since you have not attained the Tao, how do you know that the Tao is the source? How do you know that there is nothing higher than the Word? ”

"There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature. Lonely, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not dying, can be the mother of heaven and earth. I don't know its name, the word is the way, and the name of the strong is big. ”

Qi Hufei memorized a few sentences of the original Tao Te Ching.

"I have not attained the Tao, and I know that the Tao is the source, and because the source has no name, I borrowed the word 'Tao'. In other words, the Tao is the source of everything, and it is defined by definition. ”

The man said, "Look, it's just a concept, a definition. So, are you chasing the origin, or are you pursuing a concept? ”

Qi Feifei said: "Of course, it is the pursuit of the origin. ”

The man said, "Don't answer so quickly, think about it." Is the path you are pursuing the one you define or another path that you have delusional? ”

Qi Hufei fell into thought.

Indeed, he never seemed to pursue the Tao in that concept, and rarely even remembered it.

But he does have a Tao in his heart, otherwise what else would he have been practicing?

"I ...... The Tao in my heart is vain, so I have to practice, and in the process of practicing, I constantly correct my vain illusions, so that my heart gradually fits into the Dao. He said.

The man said, "No, the way in your heart is true, but the true way is false." Because the Tao is inherently empty, and there is nothing in the first place! But the word you are pursuing in your heart is real. In your heart, the Heavenly Dao created the world, created human beings, and created all things. In your heart, the way of heaven gives blessings and sends calamities. Everything is real and true. You have never been able to separate the gods from the immortals, the saints from the heavens. The way you pursue is the way of being promising, the way of being visible; But the true Tao is inaction, vain, and unpredictable. ”

Qi Hufei thought for a while and said, "I admit that what you said is true to a certain extent, the Tao in my heart is true, and it is because of this that I can practice, otherwise how can I practice?" ”

The man said, "What is real is easy to break, but what is empty is really solid." A bowl shatters at the slightest touch, but the bowl in your heart can't be broken. A sword seems to be strong, but as long as you cut it with something sharper, you can always cut it, but the sword in your heart will never break. ”

"But the sword in my heart can't be used." Qi Hufei said, "What's the use of useless things, no matter how strong they are?" ”

"Who said the sword in the heart can't be used?"

"How do you use it?"

"Do you know why the Shadow Sword is invisible?"

"Why?"

"Because that's the sword of the heart created by the saints!"

"Huh?" Qi Feifei was taken aback, "But I'm not in the saint's heart world, how can I use the saint's heart sword?" ”

"How do you know that you are not in the heart of the saint?"

"Although there are few saints in the Three Realms, there are always a few, if each saint's heart and world exist independently, then whose world do I live in?"

"It doesn't matter whose world you live in. The reason why a saint is a saint is that his mind and self world exist independently and can be integrated into the heavenly world. They are parallel to each other and sometimes intertwined. Think about your experience in the past two days, is it fragmented? ”

"You mean, it's the heart of a saint that affects me?"

"Yes. You've been affected. Every time you draw your sword, you have borrowed the heart of the saint in my world. ”

"But......" Qi Hufei was still puzzled, "some things either happened or didn't happen." Some are either alive or dead. It is impossible to have both happened and not happened; Both alive and dead. So there must be truth and falsehood in this. ”

The man said, "When two you experience different things in the same world, or one you experience the same thing in different worlds, or different you experience different things in different worlds...... But in these worlds, when time and space overlap, incredible things happen that you experience. You think there must be truth and there must be falsehood. But it's all true. ”

Qi Hufei suddenly remembered his crossing.

"The saint is controlling me?"

"No, they are controlling the world, only affecting the world. We are all under the influence of the saint's heart, my world, including the saint himself. There is also mutual influence between saints and saints. Only by shattering the truth in the void can we find the true nothingness. It's like two swords in your hand. ”

"You mean...... Qi Feifei looked at the sword in his hand, "these two swords are the sword of the saint's heart and me, and the other is the sword of my own heart and mind, that is, my own heart and my sword?" ”

"Yes."

"So what should I choose?"

"Break it down, leave the stronger one, and don't care if it's real or not."

"But didn't you say that the sword of the heart is void and cannot be broken?"

"Then it depends on who is more empty in the heart of you and the saint, and whose heart and my sword are more solid."

"How can I be better than a saint?"

"In my heart, you are also a saint."

"I'm a saint too......"

Qi Hufei muttered, thunder sounded in his head, lightning cracked through the dark sky, and above the sky, was his own gaze at the world.

"This is my world! I'm a saint too! ……”

He was startled by his incantational whisper, a deafening and terrifying phrase that was hard to resist.

The mind turned, the sword trick had been released, and the two shadow-bearing swords collided together.

One of them shattered silently.

There was no sound, no sword qi, no mana fluctuations, it just shattered lightly and disappeared into the void.

He still had a sword left in his hand.

He truly felt that the sword belonged to him, and he could appreciate it more than he had ever felt before.

"This is my heart, my sword?!"

The person opposite didn't speak, and the red trench coat fluttered in the wind, burning in the moonlight.

"Who the hell are you?" Qi Jufei asked.

The man smiled softly and looked up at the moon in the sky.

The moonlight was shining, but Qi Feifei couldn't see his face clearly.

"Have you ever heard of the Demon Cult?" The man asked.

"I've heard of it...... Are you a member of the Demon Cult? ”

"Yes, my name is Yin Changtian, and when I was alive, they respected me as the leader of the Demon Sect, and I was also the most wanted criminal in Heavenly Court."